The Guerrilla Action of the Polish Socialist Party[1]

Published:Proletary, No. 3 September 8, 1906.

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OurUnity Congress undoubtedly rejected all “expropriations”, so
that on this score the Polish Socialist Party’s references to the Russian
Social-Democratic Labour Party are quite irrelevant. Nor is there any doubt that
in organising the “action” of August 2 (15) the Polish Socialist
Party failed to consider either its expediency, the temper of the masses, or the
conditions of the working-class movement. Obviously, all these factors must be
taken into account, and this is emphasised in a special paragraph of the
Bolshevik draft resolution on guerrilla actions. In our opinion, however, it is
the Polish Socialist Party’sdistortionof guerrilla tactics that
deserves condemnation, not these “tactics” as such. Our Polish
Social-Democratic comrades would certainly have approved of such guerrilla
action as the wrecking of the Black-Hundred “Tver”
inn[2]by the St. Petersburg workers last year.

[1]“The Guerrilla Action of the Polish Socialist Party” is a
note of Lenin’s to the article “From Poland” published inProletary, No. 3,
September 8(21), 1900.

[2]“Tver”—the name of an inn at the
Nevskaya Zastava in St. Petersburg which was a meeting place of the Black
Hundreds.